Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world (April 15th): three events of live performance to discover how much LGBTQ topics have been portrayed on stage and by what means.
One of the first mentions of a gay character in Italian cinema was in 1962's Parigi o cara by Franca Valeri. Yet the first mention of homosexuality in a play was in 1960’s Arialda by Giovanni Testori. Since then, more and more actors and playwrights have dedicated their work to LGBTQ stories. This is a journey into such stories from Arialda to contemporary Italian LGBTQ theater.
Curated by
Laura Caparrotti and Mario Merone, KIT
Historical remarks by
Brian DeGrazia (NYU) and Matthew Phillip Zundel (NYU)
Readings/Performances by:
Laura Caparrotti
Gianmarco Colucci
Mario Merone
Alice Lussiana Parente
Giacomo Rocchini
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
New York University
February 25, 2019
